William Cowper
83 quotes
Biography
"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."
"God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs"
"Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was."
"Man disobeys, and deity disowns me."
"Oh! I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pockets."
"Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own."
"True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd."
"He has no hope that never had a fear."
"The sounding jargon of the schools."
"Our severest winter, commonly called the spring."
"I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins."
"Mr. Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman."
"Public schools 'tis public folly feeds."
"The parson knows enough who knows a duke."
"Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing."
"The son of parents pass'd into the skies."
"And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees."
"Glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt."
"Is base in kind, and born to be a slave."
"As if the world and they were hand and glove."
"I play with syllables and sport in song."
"Low ambition and the thirst of praise."
"Lights of the world, and stars of human race."
"Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid."
"No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd."